Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	64.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	28.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20131213
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 17 '17 at 01:14
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 123 2-Core 244 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 415 8-Core 632 65% 524 Pts	64-Core 639 40% 639 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 121 Parallax 102 89% 111 fps	MRender 99.8 Gravity 101 Splatting 101 82% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC480G1CS1754D117-514 480GB 2,428 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 175GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS111101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1199 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1032 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 39 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 100 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2444 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 97 (E7) Temperature 100 100 29 (E9) Unknown 0 0 29480 (EA) Unknown 0 0 51 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14583 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18215	64.3% Good	Read 335 Write 345 Mixed 336 76% 339 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 67.6 4K Mixed 15.8 92% 35.6 MB/s	DQ Read 26.5 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 18.2 28% 51.2 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 99%
Corsair Force GS 128GB-$150 5,048 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 54GB free Firmware: 5.07 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 2682698 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 21431886817296 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1799 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 145 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 42 68722229275 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2682698 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2682698 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2682698 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9332 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6330 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6330 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13219	53.6% Above average	Read 299 Write 184 Mixed 172 48% 218 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 69.6 4K Mixed 16.1 93% 36.4 MB/s	DQ Read 29 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 16.4 28% 52.1 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GB 6,625 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	59.8% Above average	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 21.3 SC Mixed 20.7 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 62%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	845x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	173x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	169x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	40x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	39x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 18,444 samples	34x

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Total price: $555

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16